Philipp Kuhnke
@philkuhnke.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist @ Uni Leipzig and MPI CBS working on conceptual-semantic knowledge, mainly using fMRI and TMS.
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Philipp Kuhnke
@philkuhnke.bsky.social
· May 24
(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval
PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
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I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Left inferior parietal lobe and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval
PDF | Background Conceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
May 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The ‘reading’ brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults
Literacy provides the key to social contacts, education, and employment, and significantly influences well-being and mental health. Summarizing 163 st…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find:
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
Causal Contributions of Left Inferior and Medial Frontal Cortex to Semantic and Executive Control
Semantic control guides the targeted and context-based retrieval from semantic memory. The overlap with and dissociation from domain-general executive control in the frontal lobe remains contentious. ...
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find:
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
⚡ Specialization
▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control
▸ pre-SMA = executive functions
🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption!
Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk
Reposted by Philipp Kuhnke
Thrilled to share our latest research with PhD student @zijianfeng.bsky.social and Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social! We investigated TMS-induced heart–brain coupling (HBC) as a potential biomarker for personalized stimulation targets in the left DLPFC: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Thrilled to share our latest research with PhD student @zijianfeng.bsky.social and Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social! We investigated TMS-induced heart–brain coupling (HBC) as a potential biomarker for personalized stimulation targets in the left DLPFC: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social presented her research on aging effects on predictive processing in language at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference this week. Results show that as we age, we increasingly rely on our internal predictions, possibly as compensation for executive decline. 1/2
February 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Postdoc @drsandramartin.bsky.social presented her research on aging effects on predictive processing in language at the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference this week. Results show that as we age, we increasingly rely on our internal predictions, possibly as compensation for executive decline. 1/2
New press release by @unileipzig.bsky.social about our BRAIN paper on connectivity changes during post-stroke aphasia recovery: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
New insights into the mechanisms of language recovery after stroke
A new study shows how the brain reorganises itself in the first few months after a stroke to improve the ability to speak again. The findings will help researchers understand how functional networks w...
www.uni-leipzig.de
February 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New press release by @unileipzig.bsky.social about our BRAIN paper on connectivity changes during post-stroke aphasia recovery: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
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Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
OSF
osf.io
February 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint on the retest reliability of measuring 'bilateral' hemispheric language dominance using functional neuroimaging! 🔎🧠🔍 Discover how our findings inform the challenging classification of 'small' asymmetries in brain activation: osf.io/ry4sf_v1
Cool new work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social looking at the semantics-pragmatics continuum from both linguistic and neuroscientific angles:
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
OSF
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Cool new work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social looking at the semantics-pragmatics continuum from both linguistic and neuroscientific angles:
Reposted by Philipp Kuhnke
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
OSF
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics
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More from our postdocs! This week @drsandramartin.bsky.social gave a presentation at @mpicbs.bsky.social, charting a new way forward to understand language processing in the aging brain 🍁
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
More from our postdocs! This week @drsandramartin.bsky.social gave a presentation at @mpicbs.bsky.social, charting a new way forward to understand language processing in the aging brain 🍁
Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
NYAS Publications
The left temporo-parietal cortex is critical for phonological decoding during reading and appears hypoactive in dyslexia. Here, we combined facilitatory neurostimulation to this brain region with fun...
doi.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Finally published! 🥳 New TMS-fMRI study led by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social shows that temporoparietal stimulation can alleviate dyslexia. This was associated with changes in effective connectivity between left IFG and the visual word form area: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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Lab meeting time! Last week, @robingerrits.bsky.social, who joined the lab at the end of last year, told us about his future projects, connecting his main research interest, brain laterality, to brain stimulation - fascinating combination! 🧩
January 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Lab meeting time! Last week, @robingerrits.bsky.social, who joined the lab at the end of last year, told us about his future projects, connecting his main research interest, brain laterality, to brain stimulation - fascinating combination! 🧩
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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
arxiv.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
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informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/
January 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/
🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Left Inferior Parietal Lobe and Auditory Cortex Jointly Contribute to Sound Knowledge Retrieval
BackgroundConceptual knowledge is central to human cognition. Neuroimaging studies suggest that conceptual processing relies on the joint contribution of modali
ssrn.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚨 New preprint!! Using condition-and-perturb TMS, we show that functional interaction between multimodal and modality-specific cortices is causally relevant for conceptual knowledge retrieval: ssrn.com/abstract=510...
Our lab is now also on BlueSky!
Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.
January 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our lab is now also on BlueSky!
Reposted by Philipp Kuhnke
Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.
January 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hello world! We are the Cognition and Plasticity (CoPla) lab @mpicbs.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany. Our lab combines neuroimaging methods (like fMRI) with non-invasive brain stimulation (like TMS) to investigate plasticity in cognitive brain networks.
Reposted by Philipp Kuhnke
THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new ...
link.springer.com
September 4, 2024 at 6:58 PM
THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Jurafsky & Martin (2024) Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition with Language Models. Online: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3
pdf of Aug 20, 2024 whole book web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl... 👏!
pdf of Aug 20, 2024 whole book web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl... 👏!
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
January 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Jurafsky & Martin (2024) Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition with Language Models. Online: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3
pdf of Aug 20, 2024 whole book web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl... 👏!
pdf of Aug 20, 2024 whole book web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl... 👏!
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To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy!
#neuroscienceoflanguage
jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...
#neuroscienceoflanguage
jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...
The Neuroscience of Language — Jonathan Peelle
An authoritative and accessible textbook on the neuroscience of language intended for people new to the field, including undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, neuroscience, speech and hea...
jonathanpeelle.net
January 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy!
#neuroscienceoflanguage
jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...
#neuroscienceoflanguage
jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...
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Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add!
go.bsky.app/6iumPee
go.bsky.app/6iumPee
November 11, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add!
go.bsky.app/6iumPee
go.bsky.app/6iumPee
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By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM
November 10, 2024 at 9:27 PM
By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM
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Hi all,
New Starter Pack:
Task-based fMRI
go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H
Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience
by: @twoodward.bsky.social
Let me know if you'd like to join!
New Starter Pack:
Task-based fMRI
go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H
Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience
by: @twoodward.bsky.social
Let me know if you'd like to join!
September 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Hi all,
New Starter Pack:
Task-based fMRI
go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H
Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience
by: @twoodward.bsky.social
Let me know if you'd like to join!
New Starter Pack:
Task-based fMRI
go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H
Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience
by: @twoodward.bsky.social
Let me know if you'd like to join!
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I'm creating a starter pack list of scientists, professionals, and students in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral science.
Just started the list. Check it out below 👇🏿
Just started the list. Check it out below 👇🏿
January 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm creating a starter pack list of scientists, professionals, and students in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral science.
Just started the list. Check it out below 👇🏿
Just started the list. Check it out below 👇🏿
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I started a Multisensory People list so if you know anyone who does/likes multisensory research please let me know and I'll add them
go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp
go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp
November 25, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I started a Multisensory People list so if you know anyone who does/likes multisensory research please let me know and I'll add them
go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp
go.bsky.app/Gn1qnNp